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Scholar8200:
i am yet to find a version that shows that that action was done in anger! I believe it was His way of illustrating Matthew 17:20. Why would One Who went on a forty day fast and refused food from His disciples because of the joy of doing the Father's will and multiplied food(and even rebuked His disciples when they thought He was speaking of bread at a time), suddenly loose His temper on a tree?! That wont be plausible!
Another example of such illuatrative practical was when He washed the disciples' feet.
That the Bible clearly states that it wasnt the time of figs (a fact which the average Israelite should know) shows that Jesus ,as He was wont being the Teacher He is, was about to illustrate a lesson to His disciples (learners).

I think Jesus had a personal hatred for fig trees (Luke 13:6).

In Matthew 21:19, He did it to show to the disciples that they could do anything (even if it is not logically right?) if they had Faith.

Beautiful thread. There are so many questions about the Bible though. And I think Scholar8200 answered this question near-perfectly. That guy is loaded with Biblical wisdom. As much as I would like to answer the question, I have no plausible explanation to give. Instead, I have a somewhat disturbing question to ask.

I was reading the Bible and came upon Mark 11:12-14. Jesus was returning from a journey, he was hungry. He saw a fig tree from a distance and went to it, hoping to find some figs that he could eat on it, but he was disappointed when he came to it and saw that the tree only had leaves, there was no fig on it. That was because IT WAS NOT THE RIGHT TIME FOR FIGS. But Jesus was angry and cursed the tree, saying: 'No one shall ever eat figs from you again!'

Why would Jesus do that? Was it the fault of the tree that it did not produce figs? Was it its fault that it was not yet the season for figs? Wasn't it written in the book of Ecclesiastes that 'There is a time for everything under the sun'? Why would the poor tree be cursed with barrenness because it wasn't yet the time for conception? Those verses confuse me a lot. I hope that there would be a better reason for Jesus's action towards the fig tree; a reason far greater than mere hunger. I hope someone would explain.

Oh, I'm late to the party.

If the girl's action was truly due to the prevention of ending up being a couch potato, then the flagellation is rightly deserved. But I've discovered a long time ago that there are two sides of a nickel.

What if the girl's action was truly performed for a more noble reason (in her own perspective)?

I recall reading a similar story online:

[b]A man was changing the tyre of his car when he saw his four-year-old child scrawling on the side of his car with a nail. The man was so furious by this child's action that he hit the boy's fingers several times. The damage had already been done before he realised that he was hitting the child's hand with a wrench. He had broken the child's five fingers with the iron.

He quickly rushed the boy to the hospital with the same car punished the child for. The doctors tried their best but couldn't fix the boy's broken fingers. They told the sad news to the father. The man wept bitterly when he saw what he had done to his own child.

The child laid helplessly on the bed, his mangled hand held gingerly with bandages. When he saw his father, he asked solemnly, "Daddy, what happened to my hand?"

The man's felt so ashamed of himself that he could not bear seeing his child in that pitiful state. He was weeping as he returned to his car to get some clothes at home for the child.

He was about entering his car when an old man said to him, "Your child must like you a lot."

He was taken aback. "What do you mean?" The father asked.

The old man did not say any more word. He only pointed at the impression the child had left on the car with a nail. On the side of the car were the words I LOVE YOU DADDY.

The man drove home and hanged himself.[/b]